Famous People with Name Heinz

Heinz Günter Mebusch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Günter Mebusch: was a German photographer and experimental artist born in Düsseldorf. Mebusch studied photography and visual communication with Otto Steinert and Erich vom Endt. He lived and worked in about forty countries in Europe, Africa and America. Mebusch spoke fluent English, Spanish, French and was familiar with Greek and Arabic.[citation needed] He was also a lecturer at the Folkwang-School in Essen and organized and curated art and photo-projects, including the Beuys Festival in 1991 in Düsseldorf.

Heinz Sielmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Sielmann: was a world renowned wildlife photographer, zoologist and documentary filmmaker. His first film, in 1938, was a silent movie on birdlife in East Prussia and the Klaipeda Region. Further work was interrupted by the war. He was initially stationed in occupied Poznán (then "Posen"), as an instructor at a radio-communications training unit of the Luftwaffe. It was there that he met Joseph Beuys who was his trainee, and they both attended lectures in Biology and Zoology at the University of Posen, at that time a Germanized University. Later, he was stationed in Crete where he was able to work cinematographically.

Heinz Starke            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Starke: was a German politician. He was born in Silesia. He was Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961–62.

Heinz Riesenhuber            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Riesenhuber: is a German politician (CDU) and was minister in the cabinets of Helmut Kohl from 1982 until 1993. Riesenhuber became a member of the CDU in 1961. Between 1965 and 1969 he was head of the youth organization of CDU (Junge Union) in Hessen. He was chairman of CDU Frankfurt from 1973 to 1978. In 1979 he was elected as a chairman of CDU district Untermain.

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt: was born 1943. Since 1998 he is professor of Social History at Faculty of History, Theology, and Philosophy, Bielefeld University [1]. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is Professor of Social History at the Bielefeld University, but until August 30, 2011, on a Sabbatical at the European University Institute [2] in Florence. He heads two research projects of the Collaborative Research Center 584 “The Political as Communication Space in History”. He is co-applicant of the German Research Foundation’s research unit “Youth Violence“ and board member of the Institute for interdisciplinary research on conflict and violence [3]. His research focuses on the history of and relations between nationalism and religion in Europe